Dr. Zezhou Yang
Dr. Zezhou Yang
Elite Master Program "Standards of Decision Making Across Cultures"
Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
91052 Erlangen
Germany
- Phone number: +4915257453953
- Email: zezhou.yang@fau.de
| 2024 |
PhD South Asian Studies, Department of South Asian Studies, SOAS, University of London Thesis Title: An Experiment in New Nepali Studies: Decolonisation, Transculturation, and Everyday Life Between (and Beyond) Nepal and China (passed with no correction) Supervisors: Professor Rachel Harrison; Professor Michael Hutt |
| 2017 | MA Intensive South Asian Studies, SOAS, University of London |
| 2015 | BA Hindi Language and Literature, with a minor in Law, Beijing Foreign Studies University |
Trans-Himalayan (im)mobility, China-Nepal, trans-Asia, decolonising knowledge production, amber, human-non-human
| Autumn & Spring 2023 | “Politics of Culture in Contemporary South Asia”, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS |
| Spring 2023 & Spring 2022 | “Qualitative and Case Study Research”, School of Finance and Management, SOAS |
| Autumn 2022 | “Decolonising World Politics”, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS |
| Autumn 2022 & Autumn 2021 | “Remapping Area Studies in Asia, Africa and the Middle East”, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS |
| Autumn 2020 | “Ethnographic fieldwork training|”, Tutor, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, SOAS |
Refereed Journal Articles
| Forthcoming | Yang, Zezhou, Remapping Trans-Himalayan Studies in the Digital Domain during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Constraint-based Innovation, Multimodality and the Way of Knowing, Possibility Studies & Society. |
| 2023 | Yang, Zezhou & Chen, Tianyi, Reconciling the Varied Stories: Arniko Myths, (De)colonization, and Nationalization Between Nepal and China, in HIMALAYA, The Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies, 42(1): 28-47. |
| 2022 | Yang, Zezhou, The Transnational Flow of Tourism and daigou between Nepal and China before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic, in The German Journal on Contemporary Asia, Vol. 162/163, 77-94. |
Book Chapters
| Accepted | Yang, Zezhou, Gender, Figuration and Hierarchy between Nepal and China, in Stephenson, E and Rathore, K eds. Critical Junctures in Gender and Diplomacy, Innovations and Future Research Directions, Palgrave Macmillan. |
Entries
| Accepted | Yang, Zezhou, Entries of “Vlogs” and “Online Travelogues”, in Rijcken, L. and Glodstein, P. eds. Multimodal Multisensory Playful Convivial Collaborative Research Handbook. |
Book Reviews
| 2023 | Yang, Zezhou, Book Review of Strange Blood: The Rise and Fall of Lamb Blood Transfusion in 19th Century Medicine and Beyond, by Boel Berner, in TECNOSCIENZA. Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies, 14(1), 197-200. |
Other Publications
| 2024 | Yang, Zezhou, Vlogging as a Multimodal Way of Knowing and Acting: Some Reflections from the Trans-Himalayan Context, in The Digital Orientalist. |
Manuscripts in Submission
| Yang, Zezhou, Chasing the wind: Chinese Online Travelogues on Nepal, (De)colonisation and Multimodal Knowledge Production (不如追风去：中国关于尼泊尔的网络游记、（去）殖民叙事及多模态知识生产的可能性), South Asian Review (南亚学). |
| Since 2018 | Britain-Nepal Academic Council |
| Since 2021 | Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies |
| Since 2023 | Youth Forum of Area Studies |